In the middle of the seventeenth century, the lands of Greater Poland were flooded by waves of foreign invaders. The fierce warriors of the Swedish king Charles X Gustav did not know mercy, their power was invincible. The Swedish invasion was called the “Swedish flood”, their swords brought devastation and destruction to Poland. The novel by Henrik Senkevich “Flood” gives a broad idea of those troubled times, cruel battles, insidious intrigues and popular uprisings. Against this gloomy background, like bright stars, the images of the main characters of the novel - the military commander Andrzej Kmitsitz and his beloved Olenki Billevich, with the same passion receiving love and death, the bright joy of hope and the bitter despair of defeat. The novel "Flood" is the second part of the famous historical and adventure trilogy of Henrik Senkevich. All novels of the trilogy for the first time in Russia are accompanied by brilliant illustrations by the Czech artist Wenceslaus Czerny.